NePSD is in Freeport, NY (Nassau County), this weekend making 14 new ERDI Tender Technicians. Over the course of this two day training program, the students will be learning:
- Dive gear overview and the process of dressing a diver
- The roles of primary and back up tenders
- Learn about the rolls and structure of a dive team and its operations
- Performing scene assessment and crime scene recognition
- Mapping a scene
- Filling out the required documentation and dive logs
- The use of pull signals and the Comm Boxes
- Performing decontamination procedures on a diver and keeping themselves from contamination
- How to log and handle evidence correctly
- Monitoring diver air consumption
- Maintaining search patterns
- Maintaining situational awareness while focusing on the safety and well-being of their diver
